In Announcement 2021-2, released on February 1, the IRS instructed lenders not to report loan relief payments made by the Small Business Administration under Section 1112(c) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. The Announcement reflects a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”), excluding such payments from gross income for purposes of U.S. federal income tax. The Announcement also instructs lenders who have already furnished and/or filed Forms 1099-MISC reporting the relief payments to issue corrected Forms 1099-MISC. Given that February 1, 2020, was the deadline for furnishing Forms 1099-MISC to payees, many lenders may have to issue corrected returns.
Continue Reading IRS Requires Lenders to Correct Forms 1099-MISC Reporting SBA Payments on Certain Loans
Form 1099-MISC
Form 1099-NEC Creates State Filing Headaches
As the end of the year approaches, many accounts payable departments are gearing up to complete their annual Form 1099 filings. For 2020, a new form, Form 1099-NEC, will be used to report payments of non-employee compensation to vendors. (See earlier coverage.) The IRS resurrected the Form 1099-NEC, which had not been used in decades, to replace Box 7 reporting on Form 1099-MISC because the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act accelerated the filing deadline for non-employee compensation to January 31. The rules for reporting on Form 1099-NEC are generally the same as for reporting in Box 7 of Form 1099-MISC in the past. However, the reporting requirements for the two may differ at the state level.
Continue Reading Form 1099-NEC Creates State Filing Headaches
IRS Plans to Resuscitate Long-Dead Form 1099-NEC
In the category of “everything old is new again,” the IRS announced in late July that it intends to require that nonemployee compensation (“NEC”) paid during the 2020 calendar year be reported on new Form 1099-NEC, instead of being reported in Box 7 of Form 1099-MISC. A draft of Form 1099-NEC was posted on the IRS website for public comments, which are due by September 30. The change comes in response to statutory changes made in 2015 by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act.
Continue Reading IRS Plans to Resuscitate Long-Dead Form 1099-NEC
Federal Court Allows Claim to Proceed Against Employer for Fraudulent W-2s
On March 5, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland determined that an employee was potentially entitled to relief under section 7434(a) of the Internal Revenue Code when an employer purposefully reports a portion of their wages on Form 1099-MISC as income from self-employment rather than on the Form W-2. In Greenwald v. Regency Mgmt. Svcs., LLC, a memorandum opinion, the court allowed the case to proceed to discovery based on the plaintiffs allegations.
The plaintiffs in the case are former employees who were employed as commissioned sales associates. The plaintiffs did not allege that any hourly wages were reported or withheld upon improperly during the course of their employment, but instead alleged that the defendants failed to withhold on and reported post-termination commission payments on Forms 1099-MISC rather than Forms W-2, forcing the plaintiffs to pay SECA tax. The plaintiffs alleged that willfully reporting the post-termination commission payments on Form 1099-MISC entitled them to damages under section 7434(a), as well as other claims under state law.Continue Reading Federal Court Allows Claim to Proceed Against Employer for Fraudulent W-2s